Waking the Land

22 November 2025 — 14 February 2026, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim

^ is a collective based in Leitrim. Our five members are Tara Baoth Mooney, Shane Finan, James Kelly, Laura McMorrow, and Sonya Swarte. We collectively occupy an artist-led studio and experimental space in Manorhamilton that opened in September 2022. Over the past three years, we have led events in north Leitrim in response to environmental grief, care, and tending to the land.

For the exhibition-environment, we explored meadows, untrodden ground, and forgotten growth in north Leitrim. In these liminal spaces, a succession of plants create worlds upon worlds, each one following the last. These worlds are an amalgam of the soil, the air, the fauna, and other unpredictable actors like humans. The way these places grow offer ways to think about working together.

As part of the exhibition-environment, we invited other artists and collectives based in North Leitrim and the surrounding area to reflect on how wilder spaces can offer chances to thrive and flourish.

https://www.thedock.ie/exhibitions/waking-the-land